gallingly

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adv. In a galling manner

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In a galling manner; annoyingly; provokingly.

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Others might prefer the chapters on mangled words and idioms, or on the etymology of popular words and phrases, or on fractured French borrowings (the gallingly non-Gallic pronunciation of lingerie, for instance).

Additionally, and perhaps most gallingly, the business is then put on a three-year probation (five years for those that intentionally hire undocumented workers) and must file quarterly records to prove that it has not since broken the law again.

(Having made a number of gallingly stupid mistakes in my life, I can only imagine the depth of idiocy to which the stupidest mistake would descend.) Sherry claims that the athlete has made a further mistake by describing the mistake as stupidest rather than most stupid.

That year, Katrina's wake washed away whatever credibility remained following the exposure of this Administration's penchant for payola, staged "town hall meetings," disingenuously named initiatives like "Clear Skies" and "Healthy Forests," fabricated news reports praising the President's prescription drug program, gallingly inappropriate stunts like strutting across an aircraft carrier in a flight suit to declare "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, and even a phony reporter planted in White House press briefings as a lifeline.

Post-Maine America was immediately declared a "Gay Apartheid" state, while sacred totems such as "separate-but-equal", "second-class citizenship" and "the African-American struggle for freedom" were gallingly invoked.